13 January 2011

Hope for Humanity

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If you haven't seen this or miss it once they take it down off the breaking news ticker, there's a story that warms the cockles of my heart and gives me hope for humanity. At an AHL hockey game, an 8 Year Old girl made her singing debut. When the microphone cuts out after "gave proof", she keeps singing, even though you can hear a woman (just one) cackle in the background akin to the wicked queen from Snow White. Within a few seconds, the crowd, including the players, picks up the song in unison and sings along with Elizabeth, who doesn't seem to have noticed there's no sound coming out of the speakers.

This is what I love about people. Most of them really do have things figured out, in general at least, and it's the few who cackle at the plight of others.



Although as Spock teaches us the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one, it is also human when the many go to bat for the one, particularly when the one is innocent, harmless, and pure of heart.

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